{"id":63645,"date":"2017-06-29T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63645"},"modified":"2017-06-29T07:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:01:38","slug":"the-progressive-puritans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63645","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Puritans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;progressive&#8221; MO of transferring taxpayer money to other progressives<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Progressives'&#8221; hatred of wealthy people (other than &#8220;progressive&#8221; plutocrats, naturally)<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;progressive&#8221; party line on women&#8217;s issues<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;progressive&#8221; drive to at least appear to bring a better life you&#8217;re bigger government?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had to check this twice \u2013 but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/news\/minnesota-ramps-up-for-a-mythical-super-bowl-sex-trafficking-rampage\/430883973\">City Pages actually has the story: \u00a0\u00a0<\/a>Governments, acting on &#8220;information&#8221; from &#8220;progressive&#8221; &#8220;feminist&#8221; groups \u00a0around the country, \u00a0are pouring money into sex trafficking enforcement based on absurd predictions about the nuimber of prostitutes supposedly showing up for Super Bowls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He didn&#8217;t have to look hard for supporters. Dallas Police Sergeant Louis Felini told\u00a0The Dallas Morning News\u00a0that between 50,000 and 100,000 prostitutes were expected to come into town.\u00a0The call for even more outrage was sounded by a study from the Dallas Women&#8217;s Foundation, which said the throng would include 38,000 underage prostitutes&#8230;Before\u00a0Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona,\u00a0Cindy McCain \u2014 wife of Sen. John McCain \u2014 declared the Super Bowl \u201cthe largest human-trafficking venue on the planet.\u201d Glendale produced a lengthy public service video broadcasting the evils of the flesh trade.<\/p>\n<p>But according to police, not one person was busted for prostitution-related crimes or sex trafficking in the days leading up to the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The results? \u00a0Nearly no arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Deterrence? \u00a0Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Progressive&#8221; delusions about the habits, peccadillos and appetites of the wealthy (who are, let&#8217;s be honest, the only people who can ever afford to go to the Super Bowl)? \u00a0Definitely.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah. \u00a0Minnesota&#8217;s doing the same. \u00a0Bigly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine: The &#8220;progressive&#8221; MO of transferring taxpayer money to other progressives &#8220;Progressives&#8217;&#8221; hatred of wealthy people (other than &#8220;progressive&#8221; plutocrats, naturally) The &#8220;progressive&#8221; party line on women&#8217;s issues The &#8220;progressive&#8221; drive to at least appear to bring a better life you&#8217;re bigger government? I had to check this twice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-men-and-women","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63654,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions\/63654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}